A powerful and moving morning in UK Parliament, sharing our learning from #HopeStreet - and why we must support women in the community alongside their children, instead of needlessly sending them to prison 👇

Important words from Lilly this morning in Parliament, who made a powerful 💪 call for change for how we must support women in the justice system.

Great event with lovely One Small Thing #team and sector colleagues today in UK Parliament - powerful message shared that we need to stop sending women to prison unnecessarily- there is another way! Support women and their children in the #community!

New #JUSTICE episode! PrisonPhilanthropist speaks to Are Høidal, Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Correctional Service who was Governor at Halden Prison for 14yrs. Despite receiving international praise, can Halden ever be considered a ‘healing space’? Listen👉buff.ly/3uRNwCT

Great to see our evidence used in the Lords Committee on Justice and Home Affairs report on community sentences, highlighting how vital pre-sentence reports are for women. Pleased to see their support for increasing the use of & improving PSRs, as well as their call for increased funding for women’s centres👇

📣 Take part in our research! Do you work in the #justice or #community sector? Please take our short #poll and feed into #research on women and motherhood in the #justicesystem 👉 buff.ly/3O9bsIr

An unprecedented number of women are being investigated by police on suspicion of illegally ending a pregnancy, BBC Radio 4 #fileon4 has been told. Women accessing vital healthcare deserve compassion and support, not criminalisation.

“For a pregnant woman or mother, the punishment of prison is doubled” New polling shows the public support sentencing reform for pregnant women and new mothers! Time for the Sentencing Council to act. Full report in The Observer by Eve Livingston: amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/f…

Great to see our polling with Level Up featured in The Observer over the weekend, showing public support for sentencing reform for mothers and pregnant women 👇

This #IWD2024 we’re exploring UN Women theme #InvestInWomen and asking what investing in women looks like. Our Women’s Involvement Advisor Lilly shares her thoughts. A #thread for #InternationalWomensDay🧵

UN Women Lilly As Lilly points out, women’s services aren't getting sufficient investment. In Rosa Fund for Women report ‘Mapping the UK Women & Girls Sector & its Funding’, it found just 1.8% of the £4.1bil awarded to charities went to the women&girls sector. #IWD2024 buff.ly/4c5q0mH

UN Women Lilly Rosa Fund for Women Women’s services are at dire risk of closure due to cuts & years of underfunding- according to Women's Budget Group, Trades Union Congress, Fawcett Society & other women’s orgs, further public service cuts will put gender equality “into reverse”. #IWD2024 #InvestInWomen buff.ly/3v0pF4e

UN Women Lilly Rosa Fund for Women Women's Budget Group Trades Union Congress Fawcett Society National Women's Justice Coalition Read Lilly #internationalwomensday2024 blog in full here👇 👇 👇 buff.ly/3TseJ8I

📣Thrilled that I have been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for 2024! I'm excited to connect with those abroad working and advocating for less women in prison, and well resourced communities where women can be supported, not criminalized. #ChurchillFellow24 churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/…

Inspiring day yesterday meeting all my fellow Fellows! Truly eye opening hearing about all the different projects that people are planning - can't wait to see what everyone comes back with! #ConnectAndInspire24 #churchillfellow24

📣 We welcome & look forward to working with Shabana Mahmood MP, James Timpson, Heidi Alexander MP & Ministry of Justice on reducing the number of women sent to prison, impact of maternal separation & ultimately more community alternatives like #HopeStreet #redesigningjustice UK Prime Minister

'The stigma & trauma of having a child taken from your care as a mother is beyond words' Lilly. New Agenda Alliance briefing reveals the impact of child removal on women. For many women affected by the #justicesystem, the experiences described here are all too familiar. 👇

Thank you The Churchill Fellowship for supporting this project 🙌 I’m so excited to embark on this journey - if you have any suggestions of changemakers in Canada, Germany or Finland driving the conversation around women in the justice system in their communities, please reach out!